Unlike other car racing games the Pixar Cars game is based upon the famous movie of the same name and this means that you get to race those lovable characters that you have seen on the big screen on your very own computer. The Cars movie game has been developed in all possible formats so that it can be played on any kind of player. There are versions of the Pixar movie game that you can play on Microsoft Windows systems, on Apple Mac, on OS X, PS2, PSP, Xbox, Xbox360, Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube and many more. This does not mean that the Pixar Cars game repeats itself identically in each version; there are differences in game play for the PSP and Nintendo DS versions of the game.
The Cars movie game is not just inspired by the Disney and Pixar movie that bears the same name, in many ways it is a sequel of the movie. You can choose which character you want to race as and the story unravels according to your actions. There are many different fun levels of the Pixar Cars game in the Nintendo DS version like Casa Della Tires, Gesundheit!, Piston Cup, That Blinkin' Light, World's Best Backwards Driver and many more.
The high quality of game play and the lovable characters could keep any player in front of the monitor for hours. The playable characters differ from one version of the game to another. For instance, in the PS2, Nintendo GameCube and Wii Xbox versions you can only play characters like Mater, Luigi, Boost, Wingo, Sally Carrera, DJ and Sheriff. In the PSP version, in addition to the characters already mentioned, you can play Lightning McQueen, Doc Hudson, Flo, Ramone, Lizzie, Fillmore and Sarge. The race cars that you can drive in the Nintendo DS version include Leakless, Vinyl Toupee, Gasprin, and Sputter Stop.
Aside from the twenty races and the characters you already know, the Pixar Cars game also features clips from the film that you can view if you collect enough lightning bolts, several Piston Cup races and numerous minigames that provide hours of fun for kids of all ages.